NATIVE AMERICAN FISH & WILDLIFE SOCIETY

Programs

1. Trainings, workshops & technical assistance: we provided direct services to 369 federally recognized tribes and served 5,026 participants (sum of all attendees and interactions, including repeat customers) in 2025. This included 71 trainings, workshops & webinars throughout the year on topics such as climate resilience, invasive species, nepa, wildlife chemical immobilization, threatened and endangered species, grant writing and wildlife disease sampling. Tribal conservation law enforcement: throughout 2025, nafws provided tribal conservation law enforcement officers (cleos) trainings to supplement and/or achieve annual training requirements or to provide officers with advanced law enforcement training to safely and successfully carry out their duties as sworn peace officers. In total 148 cleos received training representing 66 tribes. Trainings topics included waterfowl identification, hunt safe, human/wildlife conflict management, tactical medical training, defense tactics, legal updates, and firearm training.habitat connectivity: the intent of this work is to assist wildlife movement between habitats and areas while minimizing mortality risk and human encounters. At times it is…

   $3,453,540 spent$222,131 earned by the program
   97% of program spending

2. For over 40 years, the Native American Fish & Wildlife Society (nafws), an intertribal non-profit 501(c)(3), has strived to meet the needs of its members and member tribes; directly, through conferences, training, youth education, and indirectly; through ongoing support of, and providing venues for government consultations, discussions, and by participating with innovative projects and initiatives in indian country. These included the 42nd annual national conference sponsored by the great plains region and hosted by the eastern shoshone and northern arapaho tribes of the wind river reservation may 12-15, 2025. In attendance were 306 people representing 78 tribes from all 7 nafws regions. We also hosted 5 regional conferences with a total of 471 participants from 75 tribal nations.membership: in 2025, there were 77 active member tribe memberships and 527 active individual memberships with memberships renewed on a rolling basis. Conferences in 6 regions and a strong social media presence contributed to membership growth.

   $33,109 spent
   1% of program spending

3. Education: national summer youth practicum: 8 students representing 5 tribes from four nafws regions attended the 2025 national syp which took place at both the colorado state university mountain campus and main campus. Students heard from 14 guest lecturers and participated in team building activities. Students utilized the knowledge gained throughout the week for a invasives species plan challenge and staff selected a student group to attend the 2026 nafws national conference to present their plan. Alaska summer youth practicum: 6 alaska native youth from 4 tribes participated in the third alaska syp. The six-day program took place in anchorage, ak on the alaska pacific university campus and birchwood camp in chugiak, ak. Participants learned about options for post-secondary education, career pathways, salmon restoration, riparian plant ecology, watershed science, alaska fish & wildlife regulatory systems, and wildlife management with human interactions in a nearby park. Internships: nafws welcomed three native american/alaska native students as interns for the summer.scholarships: nafws awarded scholarships to 15 native scholars. Native emerging professionals: nafws hosted the…

   $56,720 spentof which $40,500 as grants
   2% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,543,369.